Presidents on Twitter this week: Morsi, Washington, Jefferson

FILE - In this Monday, July 1, 2013 file photo released by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, Mohammed Morsi, center, meets with members of his government leadership in Cairo, Egypt. "Over my dead body!" Mohammed Morsi told his army chief who came to him asking the Islamist president to step down on his own and not resist a military ultimatum and the demands of giant crowds out in the streets.
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FILE - In this Monday, July 1, 2013 file photo released by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, Mohammed Morsi, center, meets with members of his government leadership in Cairo, Egypt. "Over my dead body!" Mohammed Morsi told his army chief who came to him asking the Islamist president to step down on his own and not resist a military ultimatum and the demands of giant crowds out in the streets.
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With the observation of the Fourth of July and the overthrow of Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, Twitter witnessed more history than usual this week. Wednesday, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s Twitter account broadcast messages even as military leaders ousted him from office. Thursday, The Daily Dot published posts from “The Top 6 Founding Fathers on Twitter,” inspiring this collection. On social media, some former presidents do better than others.

140-character presidential decrees

A barrage of tweets from the official @EgyPresidency account landed around noon on Wednesday Pacific Daylight Time as a revolution unfolded simultaneously in Tahrir Square and on Twitter.

@EgyPresidency: Pres. Morsy: Measures announced by Armed Forces leadership represent a full coup categorically rejected by all the free men of our nation

@EgyPresidency: Pres. Morsy: Armed Forces announcement is rejected by all free men who struggled for a civil democratic Egypt.

@EgyPresidency: Pres. Morsy urges civilians and military members to uphold the law & the Constitution not to accept that coup which turns #Egypt backwards

Founding fathers alive and well?

People presiding over the Twitter accounts of “Founding Fathers” George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams are also striving to maintain their popularity, via comedy and calls to action.

Washington’s words, tweeted continually by @foundingfather, seemed to stand the test of time this week even as they echoed current events.

@foundingfather: Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.

@foundingfather: In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.